Financial Analyst

North America FP&A

The North America Revenue FP&A Team is seeking to hire a Financial Analyst to its broader team supporting the drivers of North America Revenue. Drivers of Revenue include metrics such as Payments Volume, Processed Transactions, and Average Transaction Size. The Team is tasked with developing conceptually sound, rigorous, and detailed understandings of the various elements that impact net revenue, with the goal of optimizing financial performance and delivering against financial goals. This is supported by core planning & analysis responsibilities, the ongoing drive to uncover new insights, suggest improvements, and inform business decisions.

Position Summary – Financial Analyst, North America Drivers

The role will be responsible for evaluating, designing, maintaining, and improving financial models to support analysis of North America transactions and payment volumes. The role will cover both in-depth analysis of reported results as well as working on financial data analytics to forecast business trends.

The role will report to the North America Drivers Finance Lead with the expectation to drive efficiencies, improve forecasting, and enhance drivers trend analysis. The candidate will be a key member of the highly visible NA Revenue FPA team and collaborate across Visa Finance and Business organizations.

Key areas of responsibility:

• Lead month-end activities, analyze monthly and quarterly results, identify and interpret key variances, trends, and insights, present key findings to management
• Contribute to Planning, Budgeting and Forecasting activities within the scope in line with regional and global requirements
• Combine observed patterns and trends and create accurate forecasts, able to triangulate and exercise judgement.
• Be able to lead ad hoc data analyses, extracting a clean dataset, structuring objectives, and translating complex results into clear, actionable insights
• Learn and understand Visa’s financial reporting systems, run data queries, develop financial architecture, and support finance technology initiatives
• Evaluate existing models and seek opportunities to introduce new tools and identify areas of opportunity for improvement and efficiencies
• Collaborate and coordinate with a broad base of stakeholders

Skills

• Intellectually curious, able to identify key performance trends and storylines, build and deliver presentations
• Highly collaborative team player, able to establish strong relationships
• Able to establish a broad and deep understanding of the payments landscape
• Very strong analytical skills, able to pull and analyze financial data, hands-on experience developing complex financial models and with solid foundation in Excel and PowerPoint

This is a hybrid position. Expectation of days in the office will be confirmed by your Hiring Manager.